February 14th, 2005
Every week films get a second chance at success from the home market; or, in some cases, a first chance at success. Here is a list of wide releases, limited releases and a few from the growing TV on DVD section including this week's winner,
Angel - Season Five -
Buy from Amazon. However, there are also two other, limited releases worth picking up, but I recommend renting first. They are
Donnie Darko - The Director's Cut -
Buy from Amazon and
The Motorcycle Diaries -
Buy from Amazon.
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February 7th, 2005
Every week films get a second chance at success from the home market; or, in some cases, a first chance at success. Here is a list of wide releases, limited releases and a few from the growing TV on DVD section including this week's winner, which we'll get to in a moment. This week is further evidence in the power of the growing TV on DVD market. There are nine shows making their debut on DVD. All-in-all there are 537 DVDs being released tomorrow, but it seems like 500 of them are re-releases. There was so much that any real gem was buried under an avalanche of dreck. Nothing stood out as a must have, but two limited releases, Before Sunset - Buy from Amazon and Robot Stories - Buy from Amazon are worth a rental.
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April 21st, 2004
No film could make $10,000 per theatre this weekend and that's the third time in four weeks that's happened. In top spot was
Kill Bill: Volume 2 with an average of $8,450 in 2,971. There were a few There were several holdovers on the list, including
Robot Stories, which has been in release for more than two months.
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February 19th, 2004
The rerelease of the French musical
Umbrellas of Cherbourg topped this week's per theatre average chart with $14,760 in its lone theatre. Three other films very close to each other battling for second place. The overall champ,
50 First Dates finished a strong second with $11,098 in almost 3600 theatres. While
Osama spent its second weekend on the list with $10,151. The final film to top $10,000 was the self-distributed
Robot Stories. Despite having a tiny distribution budget, the Science Fiction anthology sold out four showings on its way to earning $10,026 in it only theatre.
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February 13th, 2004
February 12th, 2004
During the past week promotional websites for several movies were launched and some older ones added additional content. Here the list of this week's releases, a couple of new sites and few updates including the winner for the week,
Eternal. If you know of any new movie websites not on this list feel free to e-mail me with the details.
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